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11/4/2015 - This Veterans Day, patriotic businesses across the country are honoring our veterans with discounts. The list below only includes businesses that contacted the VFW directly regarding their Veterans Day discounts. Bellhops.com On Veterans Day, November 11, 2015, military veterans will be able to order free Bellhops help for moving and lifting jobs taking place between November 13 and December 15, 2015. Whether it’s loading or unloading a moving truck, mov...

10/31/2016 - Deon Wortham proudly served 20 years in the Army. He has been stationed all over the country, and he completed 10 overseas deployments, including two to Afghanistan. Wortham separated from the military a year ago, and he struggled with finding a job. “The market was hard,” said Wortham, a member of Post 1361 in Hutchison, Kan. “The jobs I was finding were paying $10 an hour. I had to transition from living off an E-7 [pay grade] to making next to nothing.” An Army Sgt. 1...

5/21/2012 - The Membership department at VFW National Headquarters joined local VFW members in Concordia, Mo., to pay tribute to motorcyclists participating in the annual cross-country “Run for the Wall” motorcycle ride. More than 600 riders made a pit stop in Concordia as they journeyed to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C., to honor veterans of past and current wars. Flags lined the road as members of the community cheered for the riders as they entered town. To show...

1/7/2011 - The following column first appeared in the January 2011 issue of VFW magazine. Often in history, one war tends to overshadow another. To a certain extent, this has been the case with the Persian Gulf War. Sandwiched between Vietnam and the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, vets of 1991 are sometimes forgotten. On the war’s 20th anniversary it is only appropriate that we commemorate the service and sacrifices of the Americans who evicted Saddam Hussein’s Iraq from Kuwait. No one...

2/15/2011 - Members at VFW Post 49 in Mobile, Ala., know it’s important to recognize and honor all military units—large and small. They’re concerned that small detachment units don’t always receive the same recognition as their larger counterparts. Members decided the best way to address this concern was to officially adopt the 946th Forward Surgical Team through VFW’s Military Assistance Program’s (MAP) Adopt-a-Unit program. The 946th Forward Surgical Team is small, with fewer th...

7/17/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S. is proud to announce VFW Life member and retired Army Col. Raymond Denisewich as its VFW Accredited Service Representative of the Year 2017. The colonel is an Iraq and Afghanistan veteran who served 36 years in uniform before being appointed as VFW Rhode Island’s Department Service Officer in June 2016. According to his awards package, he used his personal experiences and leadership skills to successfully imple...

7/20/2017 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. — After a 26-year absence, up to 10,000 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliary are set to roll into New Orleans this weekend to elect new leadership and to approve resolutions that will guide the national organization’s advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and its veteran and military support programs across the country. The 118th VFW National Convention begins Saturday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The bu...